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Island tours

Tour packages, times & prices

For cruise guests, hotel and villa guests, B&Bs, yacht crews and everyone on vacation. Staying on the island? We pick you up at your door. Arriving by ship? We send you a map of the cruise facility meeting point.

  • Local guide who grew up on the island
  • Fully air-conditioned vehicle
  • Cooler with free drinks — water, sodas, beer & rum punch
  • Pickup from cruise facility, hotel, villa or B&B
Best of the Island Tour in Sint Maarten
8 stops2 beachesRum & cheese tastingBoth capitals

Best of the Island Tour

The full loop — both sides in one day

5 hours · 9:00am – 2:00pm $60 per person

Our signature tour: a complete drive around Sint Maarten and Saint Martin with panoramic viewpoints, rum and cheese tasting, two capitals for duty-free shopping, and time on the island's two most loved beaches. Eight planned stops, plus bonus stops whenever time allows.

Tour itinerary

  1. Pickup from the cruise facility, hotel or place of stay — 9:00am or 10:00am
  2. Cole Bay Hill photo stop — 5 min
  3. Topper's Rhum Distillery tasting — 15 min
  4. Maho Beach plane-spotting photo stop — 20 min
  5. Marigot, French side: market, shopping & sights — 45 min
  6. Orient Bay: swim, water sports, lunch & boutiques — 90 min
  7. Paradise View & the Border Monument photo stops
  8. Amsterdam Cheese & Liquor store tasting — 15 min
  9. Back to your ship, or dropped off in downtown Philipsburg
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Maho Beach Tour in Sint Maarten
3.5 hrs at MahoBeach bars & lounge chairsBorder crossing

Maho Beach Tour

The island's headline attraction

6 hours · 9:00am – 3:00pm $40 per person

The beach you have seen on every travel channel. Watch jets pass a few feet over your head, feel the engine blast from a safe distance, then swim, lounge and eat right at the runway fence. Maho Village — restaurants, boutiques and casinos — is a five-minute walk away.

Tour itinerary

  1. Leaves the cruise facility at 9:00am or 10:00am
  2. Cole Bay Hill photo stop — 5 min, then across the border
  3. Marigot, French side — 30 min
  4. Maho Beach — 3.5 hours of swimming, lunch and plane watching
  5. Back to your ship, or dropped off in downtown Philipsburg
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Beach Hopping Tour in Sint Maarten
Orient BayMaho BeachWater sports available

Beach Hopping Tour

Two famous beaches, one day

5 hours · 9:00am – 3:00pm $60 per person

Split your day between Orient Bay — a mile of beach bars, restaurants, jet skis and parasailing — and Maho Beach, where the planes come in low over the sand. Changing rooms and fresh-water rinse available at most beach bars.

Tour itinerary

  1. Leaves the cruise facility at 9:00am or 10:00am
  2. Baie Lucas photo stop — 10 min
  3. Orient Bay: swim, water sports, boutiques, free Wi-Fi — 90 min
  4. Marigot: French bakeries, art, local food, shopping — 45 min
  5. Maho Beach: beach bars, casinos, plane photos — 45 min
  6. Back to your ship, or dropped off in downtown Philipsburg
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Shopping Spree Tour in Sint Maarten
Duty & tax freeBoth capitalsFree cheese & rum sampling

Shopping Spree Tour

Duty-free on both sides

5 hours · 9:00am – 2:00pm $60 per person

Sint Maarten is duty-free and tax-free, so this is shopping at some of the best prices in the world. French-side boutiques and pastries in Marigot, then Front Street and Back Street in Philipsburg for jewellery, perfume, art, liquor and real Cuban cigars. Your driver points out the best stores, drops you off and arranges a pickup time at every stop.

Tour itinerary

  1. Leaves the cruise facility at 9:00am or 10:00am
  2. Cole Bay Hill photo stop — 5 min
  3. Marigot: boutiques, bakeries, art gallery, Fort Louis — 2 hrs
  4. Philipsburg: Front Street, Back Street & the boardwalk — 2 hrs
  5. Back to your ship — timing can be rearranged to suit your group
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Zip Line & Maho Beach Combo in Sint Maarten
Zip line includedRainforest AdventuresMaho Beach

Zip Line & Maho Beach Combo

For the thrill-seekers

6 hours · 9:00am – 3:00pm $150 per person

Start at Rainforest Adventures on Sentry Hill and pick your ride — the Flying Dutchman, the four-span zip line, or the 750-foot Schooner tube track. Then we head to Maho Beach to cool off, eat and watch the planes land.

Tour itinerary

  1. Pickup from the cruise facility, hotel or place of stay at 9:00am
  2. Rainforest Adventures — choose your zip line or tube ride
  3. Maho Beach — swim, beach bar, plane watching
  4. Back to your ship, or dropped off in downtown Philipsburg
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Dinner & Nightlife Tour in Sint Maarten
Restaurant reservationsMaho Village nightlifeSafe ride home

Dinner & Nightlife Tour

The island after dark

Evening, flexible · Pickup at a time you choose $40 per person

Dinner on the sand by candlelight or somewhere cool and mellow — over 600 restaurants on the island, from local seafood and stewed oxtail to sushi. Afterwards we take you home, or keep the night going through Maho Village: casinos, piano bars, karaoke, lounges and clubs, all within a five-minute walk.

Tour itinerary

  1. Pickup from your hotel lobby or any location, at your time
  2. Dinner reservation or event of your choice
  3. Optional second leg: casinos, bars, lounges and clubs
  4. Safe drive back to your hotel or destination whenever you're done
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Good to know

  • Cruise guests: tours leave the cruise facility at 9:00am, or 10:00am if the ship docks late. Please be five minutes early and check the time difference between ship time and island time.
  • Ship arrival time, traffic and weather can change the itinerary. If a tour has to be cancelled you are refunded in full, and we may substitute stops to keep the day enjoyable.
  • Bring a beach bag, towel, sneakers or slippers, dry clothes, a camera, sunscreen and an umbrella.
  • Stops are rearranged based on your pickup location if you are staying on the island.
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